My blog is all about neurodiversity. I have written many blog series on different aspects of neurodiversity, such as social skills in the workplace, women with autism, and navigating college on the spectrum. You're welcome to visit my list of blog series to find the blog series that interest you most.
Self-awareness is a term you hear thrown around a lot. But, what does it actually mean? Generally speaking, self-awareness is being aware of all aspects of yourself. This includes your personality traits, feelings, body sensations, actions, and intentions.
As an individual with autism you may be wondering, how do I become self-aware and why is it important?…
The holidays can be hard when you have certain sensory sensitivities. Perhaps, you dislike crowds, certain potent holiday smells, loud noises, flashing lights, or itchy holiday sweaters. Whatever your sensory sensitivities may be, the holidays seem to make them worse. In fact, you to teeter on the brink of an autism meltdown from Halloween through New Year’s Day.…
“I mask from the time I get up to the time I go to bed all day, every day.”
As an individual on the autism spectrum, you’ve likely experienced relationship challenges. Frequently, the challenges come from misunderstandings and disagreements surrounding getting your needs and priorities met. After frequent issues continue to occur, you may have lost confidence in your ability to have a successful relationship.…
Self-doubt is defined as: “A lack of faith in oneself: a feeling of doubt or uncertainty about one’s abilities, actions, etc.”
Self-doubt is a very common emotion. Everyone experiences it from time to time. However, individuals with autism experience self-doubt to an extreme degree due to trauma from their past experiences.…
As an autism parent, self-care may feel like a luxury. You’re busy supporting your neurodivergent child and taking care of your other responsibilities, there’s little time for much else. But lately, you feel burnt out and overwhelmed. You know you should be taking better care of yourself, yet you never do.…
As a neurodivergent individual, asking for help can be frightening. Throughout your life you may have reached out to others for help, only to be shut down, misunderstood, or invalidated. Or perhaps, the people in your life have tried to help you, but the advice they offer is not neurotypical and therefore, not necessarily appropriate for someone on the autism spectrum.…
Lately, we’ve had lots of clients tell us that they’re struggling at work. They’re having a hard time paying attention and completing tasks, they feel restless or distracted, they dread going to work in the morning, and overall they feel irritable. These are all signs of burnout.
Professional burnout makes life extremely challenging.…
It seems like just yesterday you were being told to quarantine and work from home. Now, the world is slowly returning to normal and many professionals are returning to work. Although many adults are looking forward to going back to the office, some are totally dreading it. For neurodiverse adults, the idea of transitioning to work may feel extremely overwhelming.…
You’re getting ready to go back to in-person school after more than a year of non-traditional learning. Whether it was online learning, hybrid learning, or navigating complicated COVID protocol, it was a difficult year. You just got used to your COVID lifestyle and now you have to pivot and change course again because life is slowly returning to “normal.”…
As a therapist and a researcher who has spent years learning about Neurodiversity, I felt compelled to do something about the profound lack of autism resources in certain areas across our country and across the world. I felt myself becoming saddened and frustrated that I could only do so much by offering autism therapy in California and this blog.…
